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~ One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler. ~

Titus Maccius

~ There is nothing good or evil save in the will ~

Epictetus

~ Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels. ~

Ralph Steadman

~ If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ~

Dennis Prager

~ Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. ~

Percy Bysshe Shelley

~ Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. ~

Bodhidharma

~ All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. ~

Sophocles

~ The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~

Dennis Gabor

~ It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. ~

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

~ The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? ~

William Temple

~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~

Aristotle

~ For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. ~

Sophocles

~ Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. ~

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

~ Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. ~

Helen Keller

~ We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. ~

Helen Keller

~ It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. ~

Ronald Knox

~ There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. ~

W. Somerset Maugham

~ It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it ~

Ronald Knox

~ It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it. ~

Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot

~ I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~ And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. ~

Bible

~ All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ~

Scott Alexander

~ Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ~

Anne Rice

~ Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. ~

Mary Ellen Kelly

~ “Evil report carries further than any applause” ~

Baltasar Gracian

~ Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time. ~

Moasi

~ The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. ~

William Mitford

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